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scannerboyz

pawns can move 1 space forward and attack diagonally once you reach the end of the board you can promote to any piece but not a king

ZaylersPlaysChess

I love pawns

eric0022

Are you sure those are the only capabilities of a pawn?

 

- It can also move forward ___ squares on its first move (optional).

- It can also perform a special capture called ___.

magipi

"promote to any piece but not a king" is also false.

RussBell

Pawn Play and Structure - for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/chess-books-on-pawn-play-and-structure

scannerboyz

I was giving a tutorial to give an understanding a pawn 😬😬😬💀

 

trigram27

why cant pawns promote to backwards pawns? so unfair

Bob_136
Agreed
Sadlone

Pawns are the soul of chess, the great master philidor said, the entire plan, strategy depends on pawn structure, pawns are the little fellows which give the game stability, try playing a game where most pieces are still on board and many pawns say 5 have been exchanged, it will be a wild wild position, 

Sadlone

The older I get , the more i value pawns. Keres

scannerboyz

note all these are just the pawns basic capabilities

PATRlCKSTAR2

a lot of losses for me is when bp's storm my kingside or queenside and they can sometimes break through and cause trouble

scannerboyz
PATRlCKSTAR2 wrote:

a lot of losses for me is when 's storm my kingside or queenside and they can sometimes break through and cause trouble

your knights on the king or the queen side can prevent this

PATRlCKSTAR2
scannerboyz wrote:
PATRlCKSTAR2 wrote:

a lot of losses for me is when 's storm my kingside or queenside and they can sometimes break through and cause trouble

your knights on the king or the queen side can prevent this

the opponent trades them off the kingside and in the queenside case it is because the fbp is protecting a chain of bp's (french)

AtaChess68
I have been studying pawns last week and sometimes they drive me crazy.
zz_SchmoYo

Yup